TARGETED PALINDROMES A to C (a showcase for our 'palindrome-pals')

 

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As of December 2024, there are 1800 unique entries available on the daily blog, displaying individual poems (often illustrated) and wordplay, but also with some photo-collages and parody song-lyrics. Most of their key elements are also presented here on "Edifying Nonsense" in topic-based collections, such as this one. The "Daily" format also has the advantage of including some song-lyrics, videos and other material that are not shown here on this topic-based blog.

Poems About Avian Life: BIRDLORE, part #3

 previous poetic posts

(part #1)
American goldfinches
birdfeeders
bird droppings
California scrub-jays
cattle egrets
cedar waxwings
dawn chorus
de-snooding (domestic turkeys)

(part #2)

eagles and eaglets

eastern towhees

house finches

pigeons

red-tailed hawks

red-winged blackbirds

robins

toucans

CURRENT CONTENTS:

Tufted tit(mouse)

Turkey lovers 

Avian digestion (6 verses; a 'brief saga')

Domestic turkeys (3 verses; a 'brief saga')

Authors' Note: The tufted titmouse, Baeolophus bicolor, a small cute bird that inhabits the eastern part of North America is named for the crest of feathers on his head, and for old English words for "little bird". Other species of Baeopholus are found in North America, and there are related genera of songbirds known as "titmice" in Europe. The archaic suffix "-mouse" currently adds little to the description of this perky visitor, so he is often known simply as a "tufted tit".

Check out a brief video (live photo) of the tufted titmouse HERE. 

(Note that the three verses of this "brief saga" can be found in more readily legible format on the blog "Daily Illustrated Nonsense"; click HERE.) 

 

(Note that the six verses of this "brief saga" can be found in more readily legible format on the blog "Daily Illustrated Nonsense"; click HERE.) 

(Ed. note) If you enjoyed these illustrated verses about landbirds, you might also want to work your way through our collection of some forty illustrated short poems about waterfowl. Proceed to "Immersible Verse: Limericks about Waterfowl", here on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". 

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As of December 2024, there are 1800 unique entries available on the daily blog, displaying individual poems (often illustrated) and wordplay, but also with some photo-collages and parody song-lyrics. Most of their key elements are also presented here on "Edifying Nonsense" in topic-based collections, such as this one. The "Daily" format also has the advantage of including some song-lyrics, videos and other material that are not shown here on this topic-based blog.

ADDITIONAL PHOTO-COLLAGES: 

Turkey in our Subdivision, Mt. Pleasant SC

Turkey on the Roof, Berkeley CA

"Portraits of Couples": domestic turkeys, domestic French geese, Harris hawks, emus, toucans.

Cardiologic Tracings: AT HEART, part #2

previous poetic posts (part #1)
arteriopath
atrial fibrillation

atrial flutter

bypass grafts
dipyridamole (stress)
dobutamine (stress)
ejection fraction (left ventricular)
heart block

CURRENT CONTENTS

Holter monitor

Hyperlipidemia
Hypertension
Myocardial ischemia
Torsade de pointes

Authors' Note: Jealousy at the flight of birds has apparently resulted in expressions suggesting that human social responsibility is analogous to having one's wings clipped, or flying straight, as here.

Hyperlipemia (also known in America as hyperlipidemia), is a medical condition in which high blood levels of fats (lipids), particularly cholesterol, portend cardiac disease, including deadly heart attacks. Hyperlipemia is one of a number of such asymptomatic risk factors including hypertension and diabetes. Fortunately, change in lifestyle including diet and exercise, and judicious prescription of pharmaceutical drugs, such as statins, can reduce risk.

 Authors' Note: High blood pressure, or hypertension, a chronic condition generally of unknown cause, is one of the major cardiovascular risk factors playing a role in the development of adult heart disease. It is also of particular importance in the causation of stroke, accounting for up to 50% of the risk for that condition. 

Authors' Note: There is variability in patients' response to the development of blockages in the coronary arteries. Part of this is due to the gradual development of collateral arteries or side branches, which may mitigate the effect of the obstructions to produce chronic symptoms or acute severe damage to heart muscle. The net impact on flow can be assessed through imaging showing blood flow to heart muscle at rest and stress, with nuclear or other studies of myocardial perfusion (‘gated SPECT’).

Authors' Note: 

Torsade de pointes (tor-sad duh PWAnT), is an Anglo-French medical term for twisting of the peaks, named in 1966 by its French cardiologist discoverer. It is a pattern seen on the ECG (electrocardiogram), with 'twisting' or cycling of the height of the ventricular 'QRS' complexes, and is often associated with factors, inherited or acquired, that widen the 'Q-T' interval on the tracing. This pattern is associated with nasty ventricular arrhythmias and sudden death. If you are lucky, you have survived the initial episode and have correctable factors (e.g. electrolyte disorders, certain pharmaceuticals, etc.)

Flying straight is a casual metaphor associated with performing expected or routine function.

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As of December 2024, there are 1800 unique entries available on the daily blog, displaying individual poems (often illustrated) and wordplay, but also with some photo-collages and parody song-lyrics. Most of their key elements are also presented here on "Edifying Nonsense" in topic-based collections, such as this one. The "Daily" format also has the advantage of including some song-lyrics, videos and other material that are not shown here on this topic-based blog.

Here's a LIST OF LINKS to collections of intriguing poems (over 160 of these!) on medical/dental topics that can now be found on various posts. 

The Bottom Line of Medical Humour

Braincheck

Basic Medical Science

Cardiologic Tracings: AT HEART (parts #1 and #2)

To Clot or Not to Clot

Dental Feelings

Diagnostic Imaging (selected topics)

Doctors and their Practices (parts #1 and #2)

Parasites

Funny Bones (parts #1 and #2)

Handbook of Medical Testing Statistics

Handbook of Micro-Nutrients

Organic Brain Poetry

Pandemic Verses

Patients and their Maladies (parts #1, #2 and #3)

Pill-Popping Poems

Poetry of Healthcare

The Scopes of Modern Medicine

Sleek Greek Prefixes

STD Poetry

Toxic Vignettes

Another Angle: POETS' CORNER #3

prior poetic posts (part #1)

addiction to limerick writing 

authorly skill

blogosphere

bold-faced / bald-faced

cans and Can'ts (argumentively)

collaboration

creative writing (decompose)

depressed limericist

prior poetic posts (part #2)

doggerel (brief sagas)

editorial balking

editorial state: "Held"

(the poet's) Family

free verse

gender-neutral language

inventiveness (palinkus)

CURRENT CONTENTS:

Noun-Verb Contractions

Philosophy of limericks

Satirical doggerel

Subtle editorial bullying

Summary

Wit's end

Authors' Note: In the above limerick verse, seven noun-verb contractions, each characteristically joining its two elements (a pronoun or noun, and a verb) with an apostrophe, are italicized in blue. But, don't be misled: other types of contractions also use the apostrophe, and these are flagged in red font. Aren't is of course a negative contraction, and one's is a possessive form. 

Authors' Note: Used here in a loose sense, with no implications for ownership, cooperative refers to a group effort by like-minded individuals. Collaborative writing sites, such as the on-line dictionary OEDILF (nursery for many of Giorgio's concoctions), have the potential advantage to contributors of learning from peers, and ultimately higher rates of publication. Contributing editors ('eds'), however, may entertain estimations of their personal relevance and productivity that influence their editorial comments on others' work. Rarely, such notions are translated into malevolent actions by these poet-leaders.

Incidental Photo:

a snowy egret, fishing near the old bridge

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As of December 2024, there are 1800 unique entries available on the daily blog, displaying individual poems (often illustrated) and wordplay, but also with some photo-collages and parody song-lyrics. Most of their key elements are also presented here on "Edifying Nonsense" in topic-based collections, such as this one. The "Daily" format also has the advantage of including some song-lyrics, videos and other material that are not shown here on this topic-based blog.